A Washington-based special interest group, Americans for Prosperity, sent out an email message to the members of North Carolina's General Assembly. The intent was to garner support for their anti-tax message.
Instead, thanks to internal settings that automatically forwarded the email on to other staff members and assistants, about 450,000 copies of the email were distributed, nearly bringing down the General Assembly's email system.
Thousands of spam emails, it seems, is not the best way to publicize your political message; staffers and members are outraged.
